Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Stealing Lilacs

Stealing Lilacs

By Alice N. Persons

A guaranteed miracle,it happens for two weeks each May,this bounty of richeswhere McMansion, trailer,the humblest drivewayburst with color—pale lavender,purple, darker plum—and glorious scent.This morning a battered station wagondrew up on my streetand a very fat woman got outand starting tearing branches from my neighbor's tall old lilac—grabbing, snapping stems, heavingarmloads of purple spraysinto her beater.A tangle of kids' arms and legswrithed in the car.I almost opened the screen door to say something,but couldn't begrudge her theft,or the impulseto steal such beauty.Just this once,there is enough for everyone.

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